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Puffinus yelkouan
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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PROCELLARIIFORMES
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Family:
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PROCELLARIIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Puffinus yelkouan
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Species Authority:
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(Acerbi, 1827)
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | YELKOUAN SHEARWATER |
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Taxonomic Notes:
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Puffinus yelkouan (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into P. yelkouan and P. mauretanicus following Brooke (2004).
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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Puffinus yelkouan breeds in the Mediterranean, but its precise distribution is not well known and numbers are disputed. It is thought to have a large global breeding population of 14,750–52,300 pairs on islands off France (250–300 pairs), Italy (11,000–18,000 pairs), Malta (1,000+ pairs), Greece (1,000–2,000 pairs), Albania (1–10 pairs), Croatia (500–1,000 pairs) and Turkey (1,000–30,000 pairs) (Snow and Perrins 1998). Further breeding grounds may exist off the coasts of Bulgaria, Turkey and Tunisia where thousands of birds congregate during the breeding season. The populations in Italy, Greece, Albania and Croatia are thought to be stable, but the Maltese colonies are decreasing (Snow and Perrins 1998). The few known colonies are small, and all known colonies harbour populations of introduced rats and/or cats, with several colonies having become extinct over the last 50 years (V. Bretagnolle in litt. 1999). Tourism is also believed to be a significant threat, causing disturbance and habitat destruction (del Hoyo et al. 1992). However, this species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding extent of occurrence of 50,000–100,000 km². Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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History:
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| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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Puffinus yelkouan breeds in the Mediterranean, but its precise distribution is not well known and numbers are disputed. It is thought to have a large global breeding population of 14,750-52,300 pairs on islands off France (250-300 pairs), Italy (11,000-18,000 pairs), Malta (1,000+ pairs), Greece (1,000-2,000 pairs), Albania (1-10 pairs), Croatia (500-1,000 pairs) and Turkey (1,000-30,000 pairs) (Snow and Perrins 1998). Further breeding grounds may exist off the coasts of Bulgaria, Turkey and Tunisia where thousands of birds congregate during the breeding season. The populations in Italy, Greece, Albania and Croatia are thought to be stable, but the Maltese colonies are decreasing (Snow and Perrins 1998). The few known colonies are small, and all known colonies harbour populations of introduced rats and/or cats, with several colonies having become extinct over the last 50 years (V. Bretagnolle in litt. 1999). Tourism is also believed to be a significant threat, causing disturbance and habitat destruction (del Hoyo et al. 1992). However, this species has a large range, with an estimated global breeding Extent of Occurrence of 50,000-100,000 km. Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Countries:
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Native:
Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; France; Gibraltar; Greece; Italy; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malta; Netherlands; Portugal; Romania; Spain; Turkey
Vagrant:
Austria; Kazakhstan; Morocco; Slovenia; Syrian Arab Republic; Ukraine
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Marine
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